The ship attacks
The Houthis have sunk a ship with 80,000 tons of coal
The cargo ship MV Tutor, which was hit in an attack by the Yemeni Huthi rebels in the Gulf of Aden on June 12, is believed to have sunk. This is stated by the British maritime watchdog UKMTO according to Reuters.
Debris and oil have been seen at the ship's last known coordinates, they add. The 229-meter-long Greek-owned ship had 80,000 tons of coal on board.
The Houthis used robots and a smaller boat loaded with explosives to attack the ship. The attack caused major leaks and damage in the engine room. 21 crew members were evacuated, and one was never recovered.
It is the second ship the Houthis sink. In early March, the Rubymar, loaded with 21,000 tons of fertilizer, sank a few days after being attacked
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The Pilgrimage to Mecca
Hundreds of pilgrims dead during extremely hot hajj
At least 323 Egyptian pilgrims have died during the Muslim hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, diplomatic sources told AFP.
Among Indonesian pilgrims, at least 138 have died, the Indonesian consulate in Jeddah told CNN Indonesia. Iran and Jordan have also reported tens of deaths among their citizens.
Most of them have died as a result of the extreme heat in the Saudi city. Temperatures have at times approached 50 degrees.
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The prisoner exchange with Iran
Data: Sweden was afraid of being deceived by Iran
Sweden was until the end worried about being cheated by Iran during the prisoner exchange of Hamid Noury for Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi. That according to information to SVT Nyheter.
According to the TV channel, the government waited until the last moment to pardon genocide convict Noury, because such a decision cannot be revoked.
The three prisoners are said to have been taken over the weekend from Sweden and Iran to Oman, which hosted the prisoner exchange. In Oman there is, among other things, a special building where prisoners during exchange can be kept in different rooms depending on where in the process they are.
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The Russian invasion|The response of the outside world
Estonia convicts professor – spied for Russia
A university professor in Estonia has been sentenced to six years and three months in prison for spying on behalf of Russia, AP reports.
Vyacheslav Morozov, a Russian citizen who taught at the University of Tartu – the country's most prestigious – has been active in the country for 14 years.
During that time, he has used his position as a professor to gain access to key people and conferences, where he gathered information on Estonian domestic, defense and security policy on behalf of the Russian security service GRU.
He is said to have been particularly interested in security and defense policy changes and how the war in Ukraine is perceived in the West, according to Estonian security chief Margo Palloson.
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